As you get prepared to celebrate the holiday, which probably means a stop at the store for a frosty beer, consider for a moment the history of America. Well, consider the recent history of American craft beer.

And how better to understand American history than with a map such as this craft beer map from the New Yorker. The map is based on newly released 2012 data from the Brewers Association. Wisconsin, you will note, is smack in the middle on a couple fronts. | July 2, 2013»Read Full Article

“The Bookworm” (1850), by German romantic painter Carl Spitzweg, could be sold by the Milwaukee Public Library. The library received the painting, concerned the painter’s most famous, as a gift in 1972.

The Milwaukee Public Library board will meet Tuesday to discuss the possible sale or permanent loan of one of its treasures, "The Bookworm," the most famous canvas by German romantic painter Carl Spitzweg.

The board will consider an active offer from an undisclosed party for the work, which is valued at $400,000, said Paula Kiely, director of the Milwaukee Public Library. | April 21, 2014»Read Full Article(9)

Record Store Day is a big deal for countless musicians and music lovers around the country, but Ari Picker, frontman and songwriter for Anti- Records' orchestral indie rock act Lost in the Trees, has been so busy he didn't even get to read up on this year's RSD-exclusive vinyl releases.

"I spend so much time making music, I don't spend enough time listening to music, which is probably a problem," Picker told the Journal Sentinel Saturday, following a RSD set at the Exclusive Company Saturday. | April 21, 2014»Read Full Article

The Chef’s Table, a private-event venue that will hold public wine dinners monthly, is opening this week in Walker’s Point — and the first wine dinner already is sold out. | April 21, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

If things seem the same this week on the top of the Billboard Hot 100, you're not wrong. For a third week in a row all of the top seven hits in the United States stayed in their same exact spots - and Pharrell Williams is still king. See the music video for his now long-running chart-topper below and then check out which songs were number one this week in 2001, 1991, 1981 and 1971.